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Don't sleep on the deeply personal Sr., where Robert Downey Jr. explores the life of his father—who was a legendary director in his own right—during his final days. As Downey Jr. told Esquire in an interview about the film, "There’s a little bit of God’s grace in here."
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Bill Russell: Legend
What else is there to say about Bill Russell, who won about a zillion rings with the Boston Celtics? A lot, apparently. In Bill Russell: Legend, the legendary filmmaker Sam Pollard explores the life and legacy of one of basketball's first true stars.
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Stutz
In Stuz, the great Jonah Hill profiles his also-great therapist, Phil Stuz. If you're currently in therapy, you'll find Stutz to be a pretty fascinating exploration of some unconventional methods of psychotherapy. If not? Maybe you might finally be inspired to give it a try.
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Formula 1: Drive to Survive
Here at Esquire, we've finally converted to the cult, fandom, mass obsession, bandwagon—whatever you want to call it—of Formula 1. Featuring the likes of Lewis Hamilton and Lando Norris, the series captures honesty, beef, and emotion in a way we'll never see from our ultra-guarded athletes stateside.
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White Hot: The Rise & Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch
The saga of the once-exclusive retailer, Abercrombie & Fitch, is so captivating that you'll swear you smell the inside of the store while you watch it. (Or is that Hollister?)
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Our Father
Our Father is a Netflix-branded true crime batshittery at its best. Or worst, really. In the film, a woman takes an at-home DNA test and finds out that she has multiple half-siblings. The story unravels with a scheming fertility doctor at the end of it all.
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Trust No One: The Hunt for the Crypto King
The Internet is ripe with scams and Netflix is determined to catch every single one. In Trust No One, a Canadian crypto founder mysteriously dies, leaving $215 million of his customer's cash lost and unreturned. The story gets even more complicated when conspiracy theorists and Internet sleuths begin to believe that he faked his own death and ran away with the stash.
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Downfall: The Case Against Boeing
The Boeing 737 MAX incidents shook the nation back in 2019, when two massive planes crashed due to component failures and killed roughly 346 people. News reports about faulty autopilot software and corporate corruption ended in Boeing's heavily sullied reputation, but not its demise.
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BLACKPINK: Light Up the Sky
BLACKPINK, the global female K-pop sensation, tell their story in this inside look at the group's four stars—Rosé, Jennie, Jisoo, and Lisa. What's revealed in their tales of success and superstardom, however, is a peek into the closed-door bootcamps that ready young hopefuls through vigorously restrictive training during some of the most formative years of their lives.
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Dancing with the Birds
Deep in exotic forests around the planet, Birds of Paradise dance, shake their feathers, and collect the prettiest rocks they can get their little beaks on just to attract a mate. Dancing with the Birds, produced by the creators of Our Planet, gets up close to capture some of the most beautiful performances from some of nature's most bizarrely captivating creatures.
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The Sparks Brothers
They're a band and they're brothers. That's how Ron (keyboards) and Russell Mael (vocals) describe themselves in the opening of The Sparks Brothers, a documentary about the quirky Los Angeles pop/rock duo. Spanning over 50 years and 25 studio albums, Sparks developed a cult following in the U.S. and recently made a big resurgence after they wrote the score to the (polarizing) film Annette.
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Return to Space
It may be Elon Musk's dream to go to outer space, but it's SpaceX's mission to figure out how to make it happen. Return to Space, the newest Netflix documentary from the Free Solo filmmakers, looks at the Tesla billionaire with reverence as his team of astronauts and rocket scientists look to the stars.
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14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible
Six months and six days. That's how long it took Nims Purja to climb the world's 14 highest mountains, all above 8,000 meters. The journey is brilliantly documented in 14 Peaks: Nothing Is Impossible. After you've watched the film, make sure to read our interview with Purja.
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The Tinder Swindler
The Tinder Swindler is absurdist true crime at its best. The film follows the sins of Simon Leviev, who allegedly posed as a billionaire diamond heir on Tinder so he could exhort money from women. Guess what? He's still out there. Somewhere.
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Pelé
Early in 2021, we saw the definitive portrait of arguably the greatest footballer of all time: Pelé. The film is both a celebration of the electric Brazlian and an unflinching look at the mistakes he made during his career.
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Cocaine Cowboys: The Kings of Miami
Throughout the 1980s, Willie Falcon and Sal Magluta controlled the largest cocaine smuggling organization on the East Coast and one of the biggest in the world, making more than $2 billion in cash by bringing cocaine into the U.S. from Colombia via Miami. Through interviews with their close friends and co-conspirators, this docuseries details everything from the early days of the operation to the various trials, convictions, murders, bribes, and escapes in this notorious case.
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Schumacher
This German sports documentary on the life of seven-time Formula 1 champion Michael Schumacher is an inside look at his early years, his rise to prominence, and his current rehabilitation at the family’s home following his 2013 skiing accident.
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Bob Ross: Happy Accidents, Betrayal & Greed
When you think of Bob Ross, you probably think calming, joyful brushstrokes, trees and nature, and maybe even of his signature afro. But a new Netflix doc paints a more sinister portrait of the beloved painter’s legacy, examining the complicated legal battles that have ensued over the use of Bob Ross’s name following his 1995 death.
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Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir
In 1989, Amy Tan became an overnight success with the publication of The Joy Luck Club, a novel about the tensions between Chinese mothers and their Americanized daughters. The acclaimed author of six novels, two memoirs, and two children's books, Tan is the subject of this fantastic new PBS doc released this past May to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month.
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My Octopus Teacher
The 2020 Oscar winner for best documentary, My Octopus Teacher follows one man on his journey to develop a relationship with an octopus off the Cape Town coast. It’s as strange as it sounds, but also a fascinating and utterly unique look at nature.
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